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I'm going to boarding school this school year and all the courses are college-level (and it's on campus of Ball State)

I've taken three years of Spanish at my old high school so technically I don't need any more language credits for my diploma but I'm kinda interested in actually learning one.

You can take French, Latin, German, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, or Russian

But I also still need another fine art credit and don't have any other space in my schedule so I'd have to do that for summer school or take up a slot in my senior year.
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i've never taken one
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thank you for your input.
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np b
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I took two semesters worth of Spanish at my college. I learned way more from that than I did the two years I took in high school.

At my college, it was pretty basic. A lot of the instruction was in English. The professor would ask us simple questions in Spanish everyday to sort of get us used to it.

From what I understand, the meaning of "college-level" varies wildly on a school-by-school basis. I've heard of beginner Spanish classes that are taught in a complete immersion format.

I took a year of German in college after taking 3 years in high school.

I learned more in the first half of the first semester of that college German class than the entire 3 years in high school.

This was an intensive class though, met 5 days a week and was a 6 credit course.

If I had done a second year of that, tbh I think I'd be comfortable calling myself fluent.
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My brother took like 2 years of japanese and he can speak/hear somewhat basic things, read very basic things, and is almost incapable of writing

I think it depends on how "weird" (for lack of a better word) the language is. Something like french/spanish/german you'll probably learn a lot more
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kirbymuncher posted...

I think it depends on how "weird" (for lack of a better word) the language is. Something like french/spanish/german you'll probably learn a lot more

Having an alphabet almost identical to the English alphabet will certainly come in handy I'm sure.
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One of my roommates was in an entry level Spanish class and it looked significantly more involved than my high school Spanish II. Seemed like they learned a similar level of content, but they had to do way more presentations and shortish papers in Spanish; while in high school it was more workbook assignments and other simple homework.
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Typically, it's about the same but more intensive. It's important to note that foreign language classes can vary pretty wildly depending on the program.
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It's the same as high school level courses except at the end of the semester you'll have actually learned to speak the language a little bit.
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They take the first year or two of middle/high school language and jam it into a semester. Probably doable with Spanish, French, and German, but don't take anything that has a different alphabet unless you really want to study and practice a lot.